Performed by: Mim(Lead Singer and secondary guitar), Ludwig(Back up singer and lead guitarist), Shuppet(Drums), Klecleon(Bass).

Time, its treating me so kind,

Disabled by your mind,

Keep fighting cause I know I'm, not destined to survive,

Get saved for one more thing,

But still we need to bleed,

And stand above it all to show you out

Just bring it on,

Just prove us strong

Gotta fight'em all now,

And it seems that your far too strong,

But I'm not wrong,

In thinking that after all this,

I was just trying to overstate you

Just one we have no use,

One fight, but you can lose,

Play the victor as you're beating,

Everyone you bruise

Bashful Conscience,

Of falling off you tries,

I'm gonna catch you, but just don't fall out

Just bring it on,

Just prove us strong

Gotta fight'em all now,

And it seems that your far too strong,

But I'm not wrong,

In thinking that after all this,

I was just trying to overstate you

Gotta fight'em all now,

And it seems that your far too strong,

(Overtake You)

In thinking that after all this,

I was just trying to overstate you

You'll try to beat me, but I'll catch you yet

You'll try to beat me, but I'll catch you yet

You'll try to beat me, but I'll catch you yet

You'll try to beat me, but I'll catch you yet

Just bring it on,

Just prove us strong

Gotta fight'em all now,

And it seems that your far too strong,

But I'm not wrong,

In thinking that after all this,

I was just trying to overstate you

You'll try to beat me, but I'll catch you yet

You'll try to beat me, but I'll catch you yet

(Overstate You)

You'll try to beat me, but I'll catch you yet

(Overstate You, overtake you)

You'll try to beat me,

(Overstate You)

You'll try to beat me.

/Mantine, FL_MUPiT, Auditourium_August/Friday/7:02am_Sunny\

\Narrarator/

We find ourselves in an assembly for the seniors in the MUPiT auditorium directed by the dean, Professor Palm, a thirty-something year old, green haired, hazel eyed women, very lanky with pale skin, wearing baggy blue jeans, a tan t-shirt, bottle cap glasses, and a white professors lab coat.

She had begun giving an explanation of the final exams and their guidelines to the crowd of students in the rows of seats in front of her.

"Welcome students of MUPiT, as you may know, we are at the core of producing geniuses everywhere!" The dean said as she was met with grandiose applause, "I am here only to discuss the guidelines to which the finals will be given!" She said adjusting her glasses as the crowd had settled down once more.

"All fifty-eight seniors will be taken by the two coach buses to the Professors of Poke'mon station, located downtown, you will each get thirty minutes to complete the test, as well as being given a certain condition in which to complete the final which will be given to you on site, each condition may or may not be the same, and depending on how you score, you will either pass or fail!" She said sternly, adjusting her glasses once more.

"However," She took a long glance over the audience, "If you pass with above average marks, you will be given an opportunity to be registered as a member of the POP registry!" Whispering by the students had begun to overtake the room.

"You are all dismissed, be sure to meet at the buses by 8:30am, for if you are late by even one minute," she looked crossly at the crowd, causing them to be silent.

"You fail..."

~o~

/In the bus on the way to downtown Mantine_8:33am\

\Mim/

Fifty-three students made it to the bus on time, including Ludwig and I, who had managed to snag us the seats behind the bus driver. Shuppet had decided to stay in her poke'ball due to all the sun light shining through the windows, while klecleon had fell asleep sitting on my lap.

"Thoze poke'mon have taken quite ze liking to you Mim." Ludwig said as he petted klecleon, and made me smile, "You normally make any creature run from you like ze plague!" I almost face faulted at Ludwig's comment, but I did manage to face plant into the back of the bus drivers seat, causing him to swerve and knock all the students on the right side of the bus to fall on us on the left side.

"Mim you idiot, are you trying to kill us!" Ludwig seethed, pushing a dazed student off of him in order to glare at me.

"How was I supposed to know disturbing a person while they drive, causes them to loose control!" I replied, looking down, at the now awake klecleon.

"Master, what happen?" He said groggily. To which I replied, "Nothing, the bus driver just tried to kill us is all." Causing him to go wide eyed, and jump at the bus driver. Thankfully enough, Ludwig managed to grab him before the bus driver noticed.

"I take zat back, you suck at Poke'mon." Ludwig said, earning him a tongue lash by klecleon, who made it back to my lap, only to glare at a silent, but fuming, Ludwig the rest of the trip.

~o~

/POP station_9:35am_Sunny/Windy\

We made it to our destination in only an hour, but it seemed longer due to Ludwig's silence the whole trip, and not because he was mad at me, but because every time he made a sound, he would be met with a growl by kecleon, though he seemed to let up a bit after we made it here.

All of us left the bus and looked around at the scenery. It seemed more like a museum than a lab of study, with a statue of legendary poke'mon, and artifacts displayed all across the granite colored interior of the place, it had a pair of stairs, one on each end of the wall, leading up to a balcony, and large inward slanted windows that made up the ceiling, and currently, the primary light source.

At that time, klecleon had ran to a snack table that they had set up for us, just before a gruff male voice came over the intercom and spoke.

"On behalf of the entire staff here, we at the Professors of Poke'mon would like to congratulate you!" We looked up on and were greeted with light applause as fifty figures of people and poke'mon in lab coats made their way down the stairs, and each stopped completely on a separate step.

"The professors standing before you, will be the proctors for the exam, whom will be divided into five groups of ten, and we will be calling out five names at a time, each student will have one instructor, and will not be allowed the aid of any poke'mon, as you will be leaving any you have on your person in a storage unit until your test is over, so listen up, as I 'will not' repeat the names."

Everyone stopped moving, even the poke'mon that students had brought and let out, as we listened intently for their names, while I made my way over to the statues.

"We will begin with, William Calton, Salazar Ramone Escariz, Antonia Evergreen, Harris John Groudon, and Ludwig Lasso, please go upstairs as you will be selected by your instuctors, good luck!" Was the last thing the intercom said before cutting off.

We watched as the five of them made their way upstairs and only ten of the professors, one being a Xatu and another being a Beheeyem, went with each trainer, Ludwig getting the Xatu professor, then walking through a set a doors and then out of site. 'Good luck,' I thought, turning back to the statues to look at a few.

~o~

/POP Lobby_10:45am_Cloudy and Windy\

I must have been looking at a mew statue for quite some time, as a group of five more students were called, and because I heard a feminine voice, speak in a British accent behind me.

"I see you have a quite an eye for poke'mon."

I jumped and turned around quickly, what I saw made jaw drop, "B-but, how, why, am I crazy?" I jumbled, looking eye to eye with a blue mew, in a lab coat and safety goggles, floating a mere inch from my face, causing me to blush.

"*Giggle!* Don't you remember the major breakthrough they made over five years ago?" She asked, soon regretting it as I picked my nose and said, "No."

She backed off a bit and made a weak smile, and spoke through clenched teeth, "Well, I guess it is my duty as an elite member to teach the unknowledgeable."

"Thats what Ludwig always says to me, before he give me a lolipop and walks away!" I smiled, drooling a bit at the thought, "I like the cherry ones!" I stated as I held my hands out. She looked at me dumbfounded, eye twitching as well.

"Then I'll just give you the version for dumbies, now listen up!" She lifted me up with a blue aura, and set me on top of a very cushioned couch a few feet away, and then began.

"Five years ago, a 'very smart person' designed a way to use the 'old things' of legendary poke'mon, and extract DNA from it," She said, 'very' slowly, "however, he couldn't clone them unless he used an alternate set of genes to make them, but realized that in doing so, he would have to make them significantly weaker than their counterparts, and due to using a different set of DNA." She blushed a little, " would end up giving them reproductive organs." I was 'extremely' uncomfortable right now.

I made it to the top of the balcony as I looked for my instructor, a few were playing rock, paper, scissors for me.

'I'm so special,' I thought waiting for the winner to claim me as their favorite, and as I waited, the first group came walking out, well, three of them at least.

I ran up to Ludwig, "Hey how did it g-," He held up a wrist with a yellow poke'dex, I grabbed him into a hug, "Ow ow, stop it, I had to earn zis you know!" He winced as I let him go and apologized.

"So where are the other two?" Ludwig looked at me solemnly when I said that. His reply simply being, "Zhey failed."

He then looked at me, then to the professors who happened to be arguing over who had to get me, the mew from earlier was there too. "I see zhey are, uh, really 'enthusiastic' about proctoring you." He said with a weak laugh, "Now if you excuse me I vill be vaiting on ze-" He was cut off as we saw the two missing students reappear, only this time they were being wheeled out on beds.

"Aw thats sweet of them, taking the time to let them rest after failing." Ludwig face palmed at my comment, then patted me on the back, and walked away saying, "Don't change Mim, cause you give people a reason to move ahead, and avay."

I felt a bump on my back, turning to see the blue mew, "Oh I see, you enjoyed my company so much, that decided to watch me pass!" I squeed, too elated at my turn to remember the odd talk earlier as she turned to glare at the other scientists, who were busy whistling, with their hands behind their backs. I however grabbed the soft blue bundle of huggable fuzz into a hug and walked off into one of the doors, and into a small room, with an elevator door across from us, and a computer next to it. Mew flew out of my arms and to the computer, pressing a few buttons, and then turned to face me and said in a deadpanned tone, "Welcome to the first step of the rest of your life, I will be your instuctor, Prof. Sella Luna Diviner, but you 'will' call me Professor Diviner or Madam Sella, do I make myself clear?" She finished her last words with a hint of venom.

"Sure thing Lun-Oof, ow, wait, that doesn't bend that way, OW!" Was what I let out as she folded me like a pretzel and bounced me around the room, "Sure thing, m-madam Sella." I moaned as she took my poke'ball typed on her computer screen, placing my shuppet in a drawer, 'sorry Arnyek'.

"Okay, step into the elevator." She ordered, as I complied with a, 'yes ma'am' before the elevator began going down.

We only went about two stories down, until the elevator suddenly stopped, and then started raising at an alarming rate.

"I don't know, but we seem to be heading for the roof!" She said, seemingly unaffected, as she pushed me off and just watched the numbers raise very fast until we finally reached the roof.

*THUD!* I hit my head on the ceiling as the doors opened up, and immediately hitting us with a cold gust of wind.

We both stepped outside and looked around for any clue as to why we would be up here.

The roof was adorned with many grass-type poke'mon, plants, and giant, white-marble rectangle in the center of the floor, with a red and white poke'ball design in its center. "I have a bad feeling about this." I said to no one in particular.

*GRRRRR!* I slowly turned around and nearly wet myself, there, standing more than twice my height was a beartic, fog emanating from its teeth. "I think I hear my instructor calling me." I said running away, but going nowhere.

I looked back to see it grabbing me with its claws by my professors jacket, so I swung my elbow at it, only for it to poof away... Poof?

I looked around and saw nothing, so I scanned the area for my instructor so that we could get the heck out of here before it came back. I walked around, and found her, she was on the floor with two sunflora defending her. When I got closer they got between us, "It's alright, he's my, uh, just let him through." She hoarsely said, as they nodded, moving out of my way as I kneeled down to her.

"What happened to you?" I said, a bit more curious than concerned.

"I was fighting an illusion, and was taken down when I thought I won." She answered, "I need you to go and alert the other professors that, a 'venomoth is in the soup'."

"That sounds disgusting, I am getting us out of here!" I said, nauseated at the thought, "The last thing we should worry about is soup!" I then picked her up, and slowly made my way to the fire escape, stopping the moment I felt something touch the back of my leg. I turned around slowly, and saw a buch of grass poke'mon sidling behind me, I looked at the young oddish that bumped into me, "(Are you going to take us to safety?)" It asked, all of them looking at me pleadingly.

"Yes, we need you all to enter the elevator and deliver a message, that a venomoth is in the soup, got it?" Mew answered for me as they nodded and went down a side entrance.

"(We'll deliver it, but shouldn't we ask for help, instead of warning them of food contamination?)" The oddish said, recieving a very ghoulish glare from mew, "(Y-yes, venomoth soup, got it!)" It said, running to the other poke'mon at the door.

"So what are we gonna do now?" I asked, wondering when and how that thing would attack. Mew just chuckled.

"Well we should wait here until they send help." I looked at her like she was crazy.

"Then why are you warning them about the soup then?" She just sighed at my outburst, I then placed her by the elevator doors and began to walk towards the center of the marble arena.

"Where are you going?" She asked, with a shocked expression.

"Oh, just gonna invite our illusionist friend into a fare fight." I replied.

~o~

After a few minutes of calling this thing out, and making yo' mama jokes, I saw a tall, shadowy figure, very similar to the grim reaper appear, but the head was completely hidden in darkness, except for the two glowing red eyes, standing between me, and the edge of the building, *gulp!*.

"I s-see that you came out of hiding, but I know your secret, I know what you really are!" I shouted, as it seemed to shrink back when I said it, as the wind began picking up, "You're a professional magician!" It stopped moving completely, 'ha, nailed it', "You must have failed the final exam so many times, that you decided to study the art of illusion," I pointed at it, "and then used you're knowledge to get revenge!" I finished, looking for it to agree to my correctness.

It began laughing almost like a mischievous little child, and it began shrinking, until it became a small, grey and tan dipped, shiny zorua. It continued laughing, rolling on the floor as it did so.

"SOLSTICE!" We both turned to see the battered, but angry, mew, "I should have known you would be the one to have done something so, so, IRRESPONSIBLE!" Mew yelled, causing us both to flinch, but the moment didn't last long as a huge gust of wind came by and blew zorua off the side of the roof, and I did what anybody in my situation would've done.

I jumped.

\Zorua/Solstice/

'Great, I fell off again,' I thought as I plummeted to the ground, 'Oh I wonder how I will make it this time', *poof!* I transformed into a skiploom, and floated gently to a lower balcony, where a pool and some water poke'mon were at. As I floated to the balcony, something grabbed me out of the sky, pulling me out of my illusion form, it was the human from earlier.

"(What the hell are you doing?)" I yelled at him, trying to pry myself free from his vice like grip.

"I'm here to save you!" He replied, jovially, with a stupid grin plastered on his face, "Now don't worry, I am planning to land us in that pool, saving you!"

"What about you?" I asked, but he didn't answer, or perhaps he didn't hear me, because he kept that stupid grin on his face, 'who would do such a thing?'

As we fell, I could see the poke'mon in the pool, there was a herd of squirtles and warturtles, with one big blastoise leading them.

The human suddenly screemed out to them, "Hey, blastoise, HEEEELP!" It may not have understood what he said, but it got the message, as it and its herd blasted low powered hydropumps and waterguns to stop our rapid descent, causing us to make two of the worlds most painful belly flops.

~o~

/11:24am_Sunny\

"And you've endangered a students life, what do you have to say for yourself?" I was taken into the POP stations CEO's office, which was kept dark, except for the desk, with the name plate, Jaxson Belle Rockafeller, which happened to be illuminated by the few rays of sun light from the windows behind it. It was in this room, where I was getting the scolding of a lifetime, by a black man, in an onyx colored suit, salt and peppered hair, and piercing ice blue eyes, that seemed to be going through me as he waited for me to reply. I was almost grateful when I heard the door open, almost.

"What brings you two here?" Jaxson asked in a bewildered tone as we watched mew and the human from before enter, "Is this about..." He gestured with his shoulder to me.

"Yes and no, sir." Mew said, receiving a raised brow by me and the CEO, "I would like to say he passed!"

"Then why bring him up here, unless!" Jaxson looked shocked as mew nodded, "But, 'you' have never given anyone the thumbs up for this, not once!"

"Well, times change, I set him up with all the information he's going to need, and we only need you to agree, 'and'," I did not like the way mew looked at me, "His new poke'mon."

"(You don't mean?)" I stood up, "(I'm finally going to leave this place!)" I said, and then began to pur when the human picked me up and began scratching right behind my ear. "So whats your name, big boy?" I asked in the sultry tone, and rubbed his shirt, in a way that I learned from watching the human mating videos that some of the professors keep under their beds.

"M-Mim Upendo Liebe, but you can call me Mul or Barrog." He said with a deep blush.

"Haha, she seems to like you, its rare with that one, and if you could jump of a building and survive, then you are definitely POP material!" The CEO grabbed the hand that was scratching me and shook it, "On behalf of the entire 'POP'ulace I would like to welcome you to the family." He said as mew teleported out of site and my first trainer pulled out a brown(top) and steel(bottom) poke'ball, and tossed it at me.

\Narrator/

Now that Mim is a certified trainer, will he be ready for the world, will it be ready for him?

Join us next time, as we continue in the steps 'to become number one!'